Baking With Mercedes

About 2 weeks ago, Taylor had a doctor appointment and instead of taking Mercedes along she came over and played with me! There was some craziness with getting Taylor to the hospital (you can read it here on Mackenzie's blog), but they went on their way! A week before, I told Mercedes that when she came over we would bake cupcakes and watch princess movies. She did not forget! She was so excited to bake cupcakes.

She kept a close eye on the mixer.

She placed the cupcake liners in the pans.

Then we waited for the cupcakes to bake and then cool down. This was by far the longest part. We watched Sleeping Beauty and drew on the chalkboard as we waited.

Mercedes favorite part was eating the frosting and sprinkles.

I love her chocolate face!

I love how sweet and funny Mercedes is!

Utah Living

It's hard to believe that we've already been here for almost 2 months. The first few weeks I was having very vivid dreams about California and so I would wake up and be all sorts of confused. Anyways, we've both gotten pretty used to being here.

I think one of the weirdest things to get used to is having only 1 niece that lives close to us. Though, we'll be planning more visits to Idaho to see Seth and Clara as spring gets closer. Mercedes has grown up so much since they moved to Utah last May. She is still a little apprehensive around Jonathan, but it goes away as soon as he starts to play with her.

Last month we went sledding in the backyard with her.

We snuck down to her room while everyone else was watching the end of the Super Bowl.

We've been having a lot of fun taking pictures of the temples in the area. So far we've only made it to Salt Lake, Provo, and Provo City Center. We still have 4 more to visit.

We took this picture from the Church Office building.

Right before we left, a group of missionaries gathered together in front of the temple and sang Church Hymns in a Slovak sounding language.

It is so exciting to see all of the work that is being done to preserve the facade of the old tabernacle.

I'm still getting used to calling Utah home, but it is definitely growing on me.